AS 18.80.300. Definitions.

In this chapter,

(1) "blockbusting" means an unlawful discriminatory practice by real estate brokers, real estate salesmen, or employees or
agents of a broker or another individual, corporation, partnership, or organization for the purpose of inducing a real
estate transaction from which any such person or its stockholders or members may benefit financially, to represent
directly or indirectly that a change has occurred or will or may occur from a composition with respect to race,
religion, color, or national origin of the owners or occupants of the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real
property is located, and to represent directly or indirectly that this change may or will result in undesirable
consequences in the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real property is located, including but not limited to
the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior, or decline in the quality of the
schools or other facilities;

(2) "commission" means the State Commission for Human Rights;

(3) "complainant" means a person who is aggrieved by a discriminatory practice prohibited by this chapter and
who has filed a complaint as provided in AS 18.80.100 ;

(4) "employee" means an individual employed by an employer but does not include an individual employed in the domestic
service of any person;

(5) "employer" means a person, including the state and a political subdivision of the state, who has one or more employees
in the state but does not include a club that is exclusively social, or a fraternal, charitable, educational, or
religious association or corporation, if the club, association, or corporation is not organized for private profit;

(9) "labor organization" means an organization and an agent of the organization, for the purpose, in whole or in part, of
collective bargaining, dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or of other
mutual aid or protection of employees;

(12) "pay" means wages; salaries; commissions; amounts an employer contributes to retirement, health, or other
fringe benefit plans; and other forms of remuneration paid to an employee for personal services;

(16) "public accommodation" means a place that caters or offers its services, goods, or facilities to the general public
and includes a public inn, restaurant, eating house, hotel, motel, soda fountain, soft drink parlor, tavern, night
club, roadhouse, place where food or spiritous or malt liquors are sold for consumption, trailer park, resort,
campground, barber shop, beauty parlor, bathroom, resthouse, theater, swimming pool, skating rink, golf course, cafe,
ice cream parlor, transportation company, and all other public amusement and business establishments, subject only to
the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons;

(17) "real property" means a building or portion of a building, whether constructed or to be constructed, structures, real
estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, interests in real estate cooperatives, condominiums, and hereditaments, corporeal
and incorporeal, or any interest therein;

(18) "state" includes the University of Alaska and the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of state government
including all departments, agencies, commissions, councils, boards, divisions, and sections.

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